Hattie Cotton McClenny


Goldsboro – Mrs. Hattie Cotton McClenny, 92, died Sunday at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.

A native of Wayne County, she was the daughter of the late Charlie Cotton and P. Ella Rouse Cotton and was married to the late Junnie A. McClenny. Mrs. McClenny had a great love for the Lord and an abundance of love for her family. She loved everyone and loved life. Second Baptist Church was very important to her and she attended faithfully until her health did not allow her too. Mrs. McClenny had a very bright sense of humor until the end. She was a great inspiration to everyone that knew her. Mrs. McClenny was a stay at home mom and her children always knew where they could find her when they needed her.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Seymour Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Tom Harper officiating. Burial will follow in Wayne Memorial Park.

She is survived by daughters, Joyce Smith, Betty Case, Barbara Price and Mickey McLawhorn, all of Goldsboro and a son, Bill McClenny of Goldsboro; eleven grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Second Baptist Church, 1700 E. Beech Street, Goldsboro or Kitty Askins Hospice Center, 2402 Wayne Memorial Drive, Goldsboro, NC 27534.

The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. at Seymour Funeral Home and other times at Betty Case, 702 N. Spence Ave., Apt. 904, Golsdboro, NC 27530.

 Arrangements are by Seymour Funeral Home, Goldsboro.